Centre for empirical research on information systems (CERIS)
About
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Centre for Empirical Research on Information Systems (CERIS) develops knowledge about information systems' possibilities and limitations when it comes to supporting the way people work in, manage and develop businesses. Information system includes information technology (IT), people and processes. More precisely, it can be expressed as a system in which information is collected, stored, processed and distributed using IT to support communication and activities within or between organizations.
Our research is typically conducted in collaboration with companies or agencies; empirically based research is central for us. We work for example with computer use in primary education, management issues in information security, and market information to farmers in Bangladesh to help them adapt their production and increase their sales revenues.
We apply three perspectives in our research:
- Use: focus on how people, as part of an information system, use IT to perform activities
- Management: focus on how people manage businesses with the support of information systems
- Development: focus on how people develop businesses with the support of information systems
CERIS conducts research in a number of application areas to understand the possibilities and limitations that information systems have in the challenges above:
- AI/automated decision-making
- eHealth
- digitalization of government
- digitalization of developing countries
- crisis management
- information security
- digitalization of school
- systems development methods
CERIS conducts research usually in cooperation with other scientific disciplines at Örebro University: Political Science (Electronic Government, Information Security), Business Administration (Information Security), Centre for Teacher Education (ICT and learning), and Medicine and Health (eHealth). CERIS runs a PhD-school namned Technology Mediated Knowledge Processes (TKP), and participates in the PhD-school Public Administration in Development (FOVU).
Researchers
- Annika Andersson
- Panagiota Chatzipetrou
- Tanja E. Havstorm
- Shang Gao
- Åke Grönlund
- Mathias Hatakka
- Karin Hedström
- Ann-Sofie Hellberg
- Sirajul Islam
- Fredrik Karlsson
- Gunnar Klein
- Ella Kolkowska
- Jenny Lagsten
- Mevludin Memedi
- Johan Petersson
- Elham Rostami
- Isabella Scandurra
- Kai Wistrand
- Andreas Ask, PhD student
- Fredric Skargren, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- A digital index for evaluating and developing digitalisation in the public sector
- Acceptance factors of assistive technology solutions for elderly with cognitive disabilities
- Cargo cult behaviour in agile systems development
- Computerized tool-support for designing modular information security policies
- Controlled treatment of opiate-requiring pain using biosensors - SENSOP
- Data collaboratives as a new form of innovation for addressing societal challenges in the age of data
- Electronic marketplaces - designing marketplace practises from a supplier perspective
- Enterprise Architecture: Thinking in local government eGov adoption
- Hands on the wheel? Managing automation processes in social work
- Information security culture in practice
- IPID, research network
- Nordic eHealth for Patients: Benchmarking and Developing for the Future
- Privacy issues in management of intelligent systems in elderly care
- Remote monitoring of Parkinson's disease - Empowerment of patients and improved treatment using ICT-based tools (EMPARK)
- Security in cloud solutions
- The impact of the use of social media for work from employees' perspectives
- The Role of Guilt Proneness in Information Security
- Write to learn
Completed projects
- "The computer says no!" - a study about public sector legitimacy and citizen trust in e-government
- A design theory and a method for Value-based compliance
- Agricultural Market Information System
- Attitude
- Bangladesh Virtual Classroom
- DemoNet
- Does group development improve End User Development?
- Enterprise thinking in eGovernment
- eParticipation in authoritarian countries
- e-services for all
- Evaluating capabilities - outcomes from ICT use in education
- Flow in game design
- Fuse (FUture Safe electronic identification)
- ICT supported study circle education in Kenya
- Impact of Digital Learning Technologies on Language Learning in Higher Education
- Implementing interoperability in the public sector
- Improving Efficiency in Product Creation of Complex Systems
- Information security and values in public e-services
- INTERORG
- ISO
- Leadership for a sustainable digital work environment - technology strategies and the borders or work life
- Learning from e-Learning
- MC Sandbox II
- Method for assessment of information assets
- MMC in a agile context
- One to one computing Evaluation Framework
- Overview on Swedish information security research
- PepNet
- Reuse of learning objects
- Shop at home
- The role of ICTs in trans-national citizen engagement
- Transferring design decisions using End User Development
- UnosUno
- Use of Mobile Content Management Systems in Learning
- User stories to elicit method requirements
- Using Social Media as a Learning Management System in Developing Countries
- Value awareness in web site design
- Value Conflicts and Information Systems Security in Health Care
- Virtual environments supporting group work between sighted and visually impaired pupils
- Wiki Method Tool